This is Monica Reinagel.

Welcome to the Nutrition Diva Podcast.

And joining me today is Dr. Stephan Guillane to talk about his new book,

The Hungry Brain, outsmarting the instincts

that make us overeat.

Dr. Guillane is an obesity researcher and a health writer who you might know from his blog at whole health source.org.

I've been a fan of this blog for a long time, Stephen, you have a wonderful way of explaining really complex

research making it very entertaining, very approachable. So thank you for all your wonderful

work over the years on Whole Health

Source. Thank you. It's good to be here with you. And you're now you've got a new

book out and the focus of this new book explains why it can be so hard to control the impulses that lead us to overeat.

We've all been there.

And you talk about how our brains almost literally get hijacked by impulses that

completely overwhelm our good intentions or our willpower and even our

rational understanding of you know what it is that we want to be doing.

And I think that this is a topic that is fascinating to me and also to my listeners

because we're all struggling with these things on a daily basis.

So I'm hoping that you're going to be able to share some insights with us to help us outsmart

our hungry brains.

So you write that our neurological and chemical responses to food have evolved over the course of millions of years during which for most of that time food was relatively scarce and hard to come by and now of course

we're just overwhelmed by cheap and tempting food everywhere we look so on the one hand reading that made me feel a little bit better

about my about my lapses when I do make bad choices because maybe you know it's not just that I'm a bad

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